Despite North Korea's successful long-range missile test in December 2012, and now its third successful nuclear test on February 12, 2013, the Obama administration and the press keep reassuring the American people that North Korea is not yet a fully fledged nuclear weapons state - that a North Korean nuclear missile threat to the United States is still years in the future.

The facts do not support this judgment. North Korea is already a major nuclear threat to the United States--an existential threat.

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The press appears to have forgotten that the U.S. intelligence community, under then Director of Central Intelligence, R. James Woolsey, testified to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on January 25, 1994, that North Korea then had enough plutonium for at least one nuclear weapon, and already had the bomb. So today, the Obama administration and the press expects us to believe that North Korea has still not figured out how to make a nuclear warhead for missile delivery, after nearly 20 years of trying.

Clinton administration mythology has it, largely accepted by a compliant press, that President Clinton's Agreed Framework initiative slowed or stopped North Korea's nuclear weapon program until an overly aggressive Bush administration provoked North Korea to resume warhead development with its first nuclear test in 2006.

This is nonsense.

I served on the congressional North Korea Advisory Group during the Clinton administration. We warned the White House, the press, anyone who would listen, that North Korea was cheating on the Agreed Framework. During the Clinton years, North Korea forged full speed ahead on its nuclear weapons program--including with a clandestine uranium centrifuge program, to supplement the known plutonium program for North Korea's advancing nuclear arsenal.

NK is like the crazy bum who gets agitated when you say “No”. The bum yells and threatens to cut your throat, and you ignore him, because he never has acted on it.

We assume that NK won’t act on their threats, because they only act out occasionally. Frankly, I think all of this bluster crap would stop if we would communicate clearly to Lil Chubby that we are going to take him out, personally, the next time anything comes across the DMZ. Delivering the message during one of their major stomp and sneer parades via cruise missiles filled with leaflets would be perfect.

Additionally, we need to either take back the Pueblo or blow it to kingdom come.

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posted on 04/02/2013 5:25:42 AM PDT
by SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)

It’s hard to see how the boy ruler in NK can back down now without looking like a fool and lose all credibility in the world stage. The idiot is worshiped as a god and probably thinks he can wage war and win.

The North Koreans have China backing them and they ARE a legitimate Nuclear threat.

Plus China has been feeling out Japan and Taiwan for the
Last year
Meanwhile Obama is cutting our Nuclear arsenal cutting our military putting women in combat, and trying to disarm Americans, and buying up all the ammunition so we cannot get any.

And we (the U.S.) thought the Russians were a decade behind us in becoming a nuclear threat. We were very wrong,after they lit-one off in 1949 (only 4 years after we did). Never underestimate your enemy.

The Pueblo is in drydock getting a repaired and repainted. It was moved from its usual spot several weeks ago. The masts had to be removed to get the ship under some bridges. I found that info on the Pueblo’s crew’s website. Would it be nice if they were fixing it up to give it back to us. Wishful thinking there.

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posted on 04/02/2013 7:07:08 AM PDT
by NCC-1701
(The LEFT's intolerance of the RIGHT is intolerable.)

“...The Pueblo should have been destroyed the day after it was taken....”

The Pueblo should never have been taken. there was a carrier within an hour’s flight time from her and going supersonic for a bit, our planes could have gotten there in time to engage and persuade the NOKOs to act differently. Pueblo could have gotten out of a sticky situation had the powers that be launched planes to change the dynamic of the situation. But “they” waited too long and the rest is history.

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posted on 04/02/2013 7:13:11 AM PDT
by NCC-1701
(The LEFT's intolerance of the RIGHT is intolerable.)

An EMP warhead fired from a container ship off our coasts will do lots of damage. No way to stop it as there are loads of ships out there and there is no missile defense shield in place. They also don’t need any fancy targeting systems or a big rocket. Just aim it in our general direction and that’s all she wrote.

King Fatboy was looking at a cruise ship in one of these posts so maybe that there plan.

The article provided some interesting information about nuclear devices and EMP weapons, most of which I was previously unaware.

It would seem to me that any super EMP weapon developed and used by NK would have the full backing and support of other nations like China and Russia. Using NK as a proxy would serve their interests in reducing/eliminating US power without getting their hands dirty.

If the idiots that are feeding NK would cut off the food supply then NK would shrink in size. Attrition is effective.

The list of idiots would include the USA, Japan, South Korea and India to name a few. We used to airlift bags of rice into NK. They would refuse any rice that had packaging from South Korea or Japan. The rice had to be re-bagged in Indian bags.

Yes it is. What’s deadlier for the artillery is when it’s located by a weapons system that quickly locates it and sends a missile to destroy it within a matter of minutes. A very few minutes. The Iraqis found this out real quick in Desert Storm.

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